Maybelline Dream Bouncy Blush in Plum Wine Review + Swatches

Plum Wine

Plum Wine

Plum Wine

Description from Maybelline.com:

Freshest flush ever:

• Revolutionary gel formula provides a new bouncy texture.

• Lightweight like a powder, yet melts seamlessly into skin like a cream 

• Natural sheer wash of color that is buildable for greater color intensity

• Dermatologist tested, Allergy tested

• Non comedogenic

Ingredients list from Ulta.com:

Talc, Dimethicone, Hydrogenated C6-14 Olefin Polymers, Diisostearyl Malate, Paraffinum Liquidum / Mineral Oil / Huile Minerale, Silica, Dimethicone/Vinyl Dimethicone Crosspolymer, Hexyl Laurate, Ethylene/Propylene/Styrene Copolymer, Butylene/Ethylene/Styrene Copolymer, Synthetic Fluorphlogopite, Phenoxyethanol,Triethoxycaprylylsilane, Alumina, Tin Oxide. May Contain: Mica, CI 77891 / Titanium Dioxide, CI 77491, CI 77492, CI 77499 / Iron Oxides, CI 77007 / Ultramarines, CI 15850 / Red 7, CI 19140 / Yellow 5 Lake, CI 15850 / Red 6, CI 45410 / Red 28 Lake, CI 77120 / Barium Sulfate, CI 73360 / Red 30, CI 15850 / Red 7 Lake, CI 15985 / Yellow 6 Lake]

Plum Wine is a deep wine red with pinkiness throughout.

This is hands-down the weirdest blush you'll use. The consistency is like Play-Dough, which is strange but not too weird. When you touch it it does make an indentation, but it also gives you quite a lot of pigmentation on your fingers. You could apply this with fingers or, my favorite, a stippling brush.

This blends into your skin easily, and once set with powder it won't budge or run. It gives you natural-looking buildable color that won't fade throughout the day.

Plum Wine, unblended and blended

On skin this blush gives you a very fresh-faced flushed look, like you've been running outside in the cold and rain for too long. It's whimsical, almost.

Plum Wine

Here is what the blush looks like if I press my finger in it. You can smooth the blush back over, making it look brand new again, or not depending on your taste. My sister likes taking this blush and just squishing it in her fingers (she's 9).

CONCLUSION

Is it a good blush? Yep.

Is it a good color? Yep.

Is it a weird formula? Oh yes it is.

Should you buy it? I'd have to say yes once more.

BUY HERE, $7.99

All photos color-corrected except swatch photo.

No editing aside from color-correcting was used on any of these photos.